Topics tagged with groups

Group & Role Design in a nearly multitenant Applicatino

mark.robustelli — Invalid Date

For those reading, please check out this post.

Groups as companies

dan — Invalid Date

Welcome to the FusionAuth community! I am glad you like the software.

You can't create group fields. What you can do is assign roles to a group. If a user is in that group and registered for an application with those roles, they will assume the roles. For example:

User A is in Group B. Group B has roles 1, 2, and 3. Role 1 is in Application Z. Role 2 and 3 are in Application X.

If user A is registered for application X and is in Group B, they will have roles 2 and 3. They won't have role 1 because that is associated with application Z, which they are not registered for.

You can't build your own entities, though that is on our roadmap. Follow this issue to be updated on when that feature is implemented. Full transparency, it will likely be a feature limited to our paid editions; learn more about our paid editions here.

Whether groups make sense depends on a lot of things.

Some questions to consider:

Are you limiting application access by group? Are you going to be using the API to do so, or do you want to have the information in the JWTs and available after authentication? Does each company have an application? Are you going to use the hosted login pages or build your own?

I can't give extensive architectural advice, but maybe if you talk a bit more about your use case the choice will be clearer.

Retrieving groups of users

dan — Invalid Date

Fix is live: https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-site/pull/147

Is there a way to get all the members of a particular group?

dan — Invalid Date

You need to use the user search API with an elastic search query string.

Here's a curl example:

API_KEY=.... GROUP_ID=f4a64b10-1cf6-4289-84c0-c3035f3b78bc curl -H "Authorization: $API_KEY" 'http://localhost:9011/api/user/search/?queryString=memberships.groupId:'$GROUP_ID

If you are using the database search engine, you cannot find all the members of a group.

What’s your recommendation on handling roles across multiple applications within a Tenant?

dan — Invalid Date

Groups would be a good solution. The group just allows you to assign the roles to the group instead of the user - and then the group membership allows you to inherit those roles (assuming the user is registered for the application whose roles belong to the group).